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Barren Senkaku Nationalism and China-Japan Conflict 不毛 な尖閣ナショナリズムと日中の葛藤 Volume 10 | Issue 28 | Number 4 | Article ID 3792 | Jul 08, 2012 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Barren Senkaku Nationalism and China-Japan Conflict 不毛 な尖閣ナショナリズムと日中の葛藤 Wani Yukio Barren Senkaku Nationalism and China-Japan Conflict Wani Yukio Translated by John Junkerman On April 17, 2012, the day that Tokyo Mayor Ishihara Shintarô went public with his plan for the metropolis to purchase the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, the government of Yilan County in Taiwan responded, “The only way to Senkaku Islands carry out a sale of the Diaoyu Islands is through an official open, competitive bidding process.” Map of China, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Senkakus This response was based on the fact that in Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands fall under the jurisdiction of the township of Toucheng in Yilan County, and on January 29, 2004 the county completed land registration for the 1 10 | 28 | 4 APJ | JF islands, based on satellite photographs. It is land and sea territories, and exclusive noteworthy that this took place during the pro- economic zones became fixed, but as before, independence administration of President Chen natural human relationships were maintained Shui-bian. Shukan Kinyobi has obtained copies by people whose lives cross over the borders of of the land registry documents. those territories. The registry divides the island among 74 The first person to settle Uotsuri Island, the parcels of land, all of which are listed as the largest of the five islands, was not from property of the Republic of China. As of January Okinawa; he was Koga Tatsushiro from 2012, the appraised value of the land was 190 Fukuoka. In 1895, after Japan’s victory in the New Taiwan dollars (about US$6) per square Sino-Japanese War was assured, the Japanese meter. government passed a cabinet resolution to annex the Senkaku Islands. Koga was given a In Taiwan and elsewhere in the Chinese lease to the islands and sent workers from sphere, the movement to regain sovereignty Okinawa to operate a bonito processing plant over the islands is known as the Bao-Diao and to gather albatross feathers. At its peak, [Defend the Diaoyu Islands] Movement. It has a there were more than 200 people working on very different status from the nationalist the island, though it is not known how they groups and right-wing politicians that wave the managed to live in this isolated place with no flag on the issue in Japan. Before introducing gas or electricity and limited supplies of water the background of this movement, I’d like to outline the history of the disputed islands. Koga is said to have paid property tax on the islands, but the only record that has been found The History of the “Ownerless Islands” is a land registration from 1932 that remained in a log of closed registrations in the Ishigaki There once was a shipping route thatoffice of the Naha Regional Legal Affairs connected Nagoya and Osaka, via Naha, Bureau. There was no building registration for Miyako, and Ishigaki, with the ports of Keeling the bonito processing plant that once stood on and Kaohsiung in Taiwan, but service was Uotsuri. Koga Zenji had taken over the discontinued in June 2008. The travel writer operation from his father, but with the Kishimoto Yoko begins her Binetsu no Shima: escalation of the war in China, he withdrew. Taiwan (Taiwan: Feverish Island) with an The Senkaku Islands became uninhabited once account of her voyage on this route. again. Among the passengers were TaiwaneseAfter the war, with Okinawa under US military merchants who were transporting goods on the administration, Kuba and Taisho islands were ship. They would go ashore when the ship used as targets for bombing practice, but the stopped at Miyako or Ishigaki, and conduct US military did not take any measures against business fluently with merchants on the the fishing boats from neighboring countries islands. As the ship moved along on its voyage, that frequented the waters around the islets. the language shifted from Japanese toFishing boats from Taiwan were especially Okinawan, then to the Sakishima Okinawan numerous. Taiwanese fishermen would land on dialect, and finally to Chinese in Taiwan, and Uotsuri Island during stormy weather and wait Kishimoto was amazed to see how thefor the seas to subside. It is reported that the merchants and the various islanders were able island was lined with shacks built by Taiwanese to convey their intentions to each other. fishermen. Along with the formation of modern societies, The Bao-Diao Movement 2 10 | 28 | 4 APJ | JF The history of the Bao-Diao Movement can be thousand foreign students from Taiwan, Hong traced to 1970. As the reversion of Okinawa Kong, and elsewhere surrounded United approached, increasing the possibility that Nations headquarters in New York, demanding control over the Senkaku Islands would be the “defense of the Daioyu Islands.” returned to Okinawa, Taiwanese students in the United States began to speak out. A rally ROC President Ma Ying-jeou, who was then a was held at Princeton University on November graduate student at Harvard, was caught up in 17, 1970 to demand that the Diaoyu Islands be the movement. Ma was studying for a doctorate returned to Taiwan. The previous year,in law and later wrote a thesis, arguing that the Taiwanese authorities had declared sovereignty Diaoyu Islands belong to the Republic of China over natural resources in the continental shelf (published in English in 1980 as Trouble Over beyond the limits of the country’s coastal Oily Waters: Legal Problems of Seabed territorial waters. Boundaries and Foreign Investments in the East China Sea, and in 1982 in a revised David Ko, later chairman of the Hong Kong- Chinese edition). based Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands, was then a foreign student in However, when the People’s Republic of China Australia, and he was invited to join the was admitted to the UN in October 1971, the movement. There were many students from Republic of China lost its UN representation, Taiwan and Hong Kong at his university, and foreign students from Taiwan stepped back though there were none from mainland China from the Bao-Diao Movement. With the at that time. A Taiwanese student whoreversion of Okinawa in May 1972, the Senkaku transferred from a university in the US brought Islands came under Japan’s jurisdiction. People word of the Bao-Diao Movement. Many of the in Hong Kong anticipated that the Diaoyu Taiwanese students in the US and Australia Islands would be returned to China under the were children of Guomindang soldiers who China-Japan Joint Declaration in September of went into exile in Taiwan after 1947, and they that year, but these hopes did not materialize. had very strong Chinese nationalistDavid Ko notes with regret, “Even though consciousness. “They would talk fervently China defeated Japan’s war of aggression, the about how it was the responsibility of Taiwan to US unilaterally turned over administration of recover the Diaoyu Islands,” David Ko recalls. the Diaoyu Islands to the losing side.” Meanwhile, Koga Zenji negotiated the sale of Uotsuri and other islands to the Kurihara family in 1978. Around the same time, Nihon Seinensha (Japanese Youth Federation), a nationalist organization affiliated with the major yakuza group Sumiyoshi-kai, made a number of landings on the Senkaku islands. The group erected a lighthouse on Uotsuri Island that year. It returned in 1996 to make repairs to the lighthouse, and another lighthouse was erected on Kita Kojima. Uotsuri island People in Hong Kong were most sensitive to these developments. Beginning in 1992, On January 29, 1971, as the Okinawa reversion accounts of clashes between Taiwanese and agreement entered its final countdown, two Japanese fishing boats in the area around the 3 10 | 28 | 4 APJ | JF islands were reported with great frequency. Chinese demonstrators on September 18, “Taiwanese fishermen were repeatedly barred 2010 at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing unilaterally, but the Chinese government did absolutely nothing,” David Ko remarks indignantly. The Kurihara Family Bears a Heavy Debt Let us turn our attention from the Chinese In 1996, a year before Hong Kong reverted to sphere to the domestic Japanese scene. As China, Foreign Minister Ikeda Yukihiko made a mentioned, Koga sold Uotsuri and other islands stop in Hong Kong when reports of the landing to the Kurihara family, but there are many by Japanese nationalists were still fresh. He aspects of the sale price and process that refused to hold a press conference at the remain unclear. Since Ishihara’s announcement airport, but commented to a Ming Pao reporter, in April, Kurihara Kunioki’s younger brother, “The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Hiroyuki, has appeared occasionally in the our national territory.” His remark inflamed the media, but there has been no reporting on his Bao-Daio Movement (seeShukan Kinyobi, links to nationalist groups. Further, in September 27, 1996). reporting on the Kurihara family, one gets glimpses of the backstory that has led to the In September of that year, an activist from present talk of selling the islands. Hong Kong drowned while attempting to land on the islands, and the movement reached its Kurihara Kunioki’s estate in Saitama Prefecture high-water mark, with tens of thousands is in a residential district near the Omiya Koen participating in anti-Japanese demonstrations. Station on the Tobu Noda train line. Adjacent On October 7, four Hong Kong legislators to the Hishiya Kaikan that Kurihara operates, it dodged Japan Coast Guard vessels andis surrounded by dense woods and earthen managed to land on Uotsuri Island. Returning walls. The property is 40 meters wide where it to Hong Kong, the four were greeted as heroes.
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